Myrna Loy (1905 - 1993)

American film, television and stage actress.

* August 2, 1905 Radersburg, Montana, USA
 as Myrna Adele Williams
 December 14, 1993 New York, New York, USA



Vintage magazines

Photoplay, May 1936
Visages et contes du cinéma, nr. 26 1938
Photoplay, January 1928

Photoplay, July 1928
Photoplay, August 1928
Photoplay, September 1928

Photoplay, September 1928
Photoplay, October 1928
Photoplay, March 1929


Books by Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy with James Kotsilibas-Davis
Being and Becoming
London, 1987

James Kotsilibas-Davis and Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy, Being and becoming
New York, 1987

Books on Myrna Loy

Emily W. Leider Myrna Loy Emily W. Leider
Myrna Loy, The only good girl in Hollywood
Berkeley, 2011

Lawrence J. Quirk The Films of Myrna Loy Lawrence J. Quirk
The Films of Myrna Loy
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Karyn Kay
Myrna Loy
New York, 1977

Books with substantial mentioning of Myrna Loy

Adrienne L. McLean (ed.)
Glamour in a golden age, Movie stars of the 1930s
New Brunswick, N.J., 2011

 Leading Ladies
Leading Ladies, The 50 Most Unforgettable Actresses of the Studio Area
2006

John Dileo 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

Gary J. Svehla and Susan Svehla (editors)
Hollywood's Classic Scream Queens, 1930s
2000

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris You ain't heard nothin' yet Andrew Sarris
"You ain't heard nothin' yet", the American talking film ; history & memory ; 1927 - 1949
New York, Oxford, 1998

Ronald L. Smith
Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups
New York, Oxford, 1992

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers The MGM Stock Company James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers
The MGM Stock Company, The Golden Era
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

James Robert Parish Hollywood's Great Love Teams James Robert Parish
Hollywood's Great Love Teams
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Cedric Osmond Bermingham (editor) Stars of the Screen 1931 Cedric Osmond Bermingham (editor)
Stars of the Screen 1931, A volume of biographies of contemporary actors and actresses engaged in photoplay throughout the world
London, [1931]

Connery Chappell (ed.)
Picturegoer Film Annual
Long Acre - London,

Books with an entry on Myrna Loy

Denise Lowe An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895 - 1930 Denise Lowe
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895 - 1930
New York, London, Oxford, 2005

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1994, A Survey of the Films of 1993
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1994

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Books with photograph(s) of Myrna Loy

John Richard Finch and Paul Elby Close-Ups John Richard Finch and Paul Elby
Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978

John Kobal (ed.) Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties John Kobal (ed.)
Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties, 163 Glamor Photos
New York, 1977

Interviews

Joseph Hurley, Nora on Nick, Myrna Loy Talks About Her Co-Star, in: Films in Review, vol. 33, 1982 pp. 464-469

Films

1925
Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ
Pretty Ladies
Sporting Life

1926
Across the Pacific
The Caveman
Don Juan
The Exquisite Sinner
The Gilded Highway
The Love Toy
The Third Degree
Why Girls Go Back Home
So this Is Paris

1927
Bitter Apples
The Climbers
Finger Prints
The Girl from Chicago
Ham and Eggs at the Front
The Heart of Maryland
If I Were Single
The Jazz Singer
Simple Sis
When a Man Loves
A Sailor's Sweetheart

1928
Beware of Married Men
The Crimson City
A Girl in Every Port
The Midnight Taxi
Noah's Ark
Pay as You Enter
State Street Sadie
Turn Back the Hours
What Price Beauty?

1929
The Black Watch
The Desert Song
Evidence
Fancy Baggage
The Great Divide
Hardboiled Rose
The Show of Shows
The Squall

1930
Bride of the Regiment
Cameo Kirby
Cock O' the Walk
The Devil to Pay!
Isle of Escape
The Jazz Cinderella
The Last of the Duanes
Renegades
Rogue of the Rio Grande
The Truth About Youth
Under a Texas Moon
The Bad Man
The Naughty Flirt

1931
Arrowsmith
Body and Soul
A Connecticut Yankee
Consolation Marriage
Hush Money
The Naughty Flirt
Rebound
Skyline
Transatlantic

1932
The Animal Kingdom
Emma
Love Me Tonight
The Mask of Fu Manchu
New Morals for Old
Thirteen Women
The Wet Parade
The Woman in Room 13
Vanity Fair

1933
The Barbarian
Night Flight
Penthouse
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Scarlet River
Topaze
When Ladies Meet

1934
Broadway Bill
Evelyn Prentice
Manhattan Melodrama
Men in White
Stamboul Quest
The Thin Man

1935
Whipsaw
Wings in the Dark

1936
After the Thin Man
The Great Ziegfeld
Libeled Lady
Petticoat Fever
To Mary - With Love
Wife vs. Secretary

1937
Double Wedding
Parnell

1938
Man-Proof
Test Pilot
Too Hot to Handle

1939
Another Thin Man
Lucky Night
The Rains Came

1940
I Love You Again
Third Finger, Left Hand

1941
Love Crazy
Shadow of the Thin Man

1943
Show-Business at War

1944
The Thin Man Goes Home

1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
So Goes My Love

1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Song of the Thin Man

1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

1949
The Red Pony
That Dangerous Age

1950
Cheaper by the Dozen

1952
Belles on Their Toes

1956
The Ambassador's Daughter

1959
Lonelyhearts

1960
From the Terrace
Midnight Lace

1964
The Big Parade of Comedy

1965
The Love Goddesses

1969
The April Fools

1974
Airport 1975
Indict and Convict

1975
Brother Can You Spare a Dime

1978
The End

1980
Just Tell Me What You Want

1994
Thats Entertainment! III

2003
Complicated Women

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